What's the difference between landowner and possessor?

Landowner


Definition:

  • (n.) An owner of land.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The issue has been raised by an accountant investigating the tax affairs of the duchy – an agricultural, commercial and residential landowner.
  • (2) Private landowners are able to use property guardians to minimise their tax bills and, although it is hard to estimate, the potential financial loss to councils is substantial.
  • (3) John Hansen, president of the Nebraska Farmers Union, said the landowners his group represents "are obviously not happy" that the beetles are being removed.
  • (4) The bill, voted through a panel of the house energy and power subcommittee, would compel Obama to over-rule demands for a further review of the project from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and disregard local opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline from landowners along its 1,700-mile route.
  • (5) Tina Louise Rothery, 54, had been ordered to pay £55,342 of fees to the British company and a group of landowners, or face a 14-day prison sentence, after she sought to stop an injunction that would prevent protesters from gathering on a stretch of land being considered for shale gas exploration.
  • (6) But farmers and landowners have expressed concern about the impact of the species on rural businesses after reports of "significant impacts on agricultural land" in areas of Tayside where a colony of around 150 beavers has become established .
  • (7) Banda's predecessor Bingu wa Mutharika made himself the country's biggest landowner, built a vast mansion with suitcases of cash stashed under the bed, went on two-week-long holidays to Macau and appointed his brother as foreign minister.
  • (8) These changes are vital to kick starting shale and make sure it’s not delayed by one single landowner.
  • (9) "Consumers of the powdered horn in Asia risk becoming seriously ill from ingesting a so-called medicinal product, which is now contaminated with a non-lethal chemical package," said Andrew Parker, chief executive of the Sabi Sand Wildtuin Association, a group of private landowners in Mpumalanga province.
  • (10) Brian Jorde, a lawyer for the three Nebraska landowners who sued to block the pipeline’s route, said the matter was far from settled – although he did not say whether he would seek other legal avenues.
  • (11) Didier Enrique “Electric” Ramirez was apprehended for his alleged role in the killing of Nelson García , 39, who was shot dead earlier this month by at least two assailants following a dispute with local landowners, authorities said in a statement.
  • (12) While shopping centres, stations, airports and many other places are generally private land, whizzing around on a hoverboard requires the permission of the landowner.
  • (13) There were signs in September 2012 that Seeds of the Forest was provoking fierce opposition from loggers and big landowners, particularly when it announced plans to incorporate, legally, a further 14,000 hectares (34,500 acres) of public forest.
  • (14) At USDA, we're working closely with our nation's farmers, ranchers and forest landowners to help them manage the negative impacts of climate change, reduce their energy costs, and grow the bioeconomy to create jobs in rural America."
  • (15) We are ready to work with landowners and farmers to look after farmland wildlife.” Harper argues that the RSPB has been misunderstood, pointing out that it has always been neutral on the ethics of shooting birds.
  • (16) Environmental campaigners have been using landowners' rights to halt fracking projects.
  • (17) Many landowners interested in deploying the badger vaccine have approached their local Wildlife Trust for advice, as the information is not available centrally.
  • (18) We're seeing farmers, landowners, parents, health workers, church groups expressing interest and concern.
  • (19) Marcus Adams, another of the five landowners who formed the legal blockade around the Celtique site, said: "It's encouraging to see Celtique have scaled back their drilling plans at least for now, but we won't give up the fight until they've officially abandoned their ambition to frack in the heart of this beautiful national park.
  • (20) Britain's 200,000 farmers and landowners, who receive tens of billions of pounds of European subsidies for owning land and growing food, will escape most of the cuts because European common agricultural policy payments are made directly from Brussels.

Possessor


Definition:

  • (n.) One who possesses; one who occupies, holds, owns, or controls; one who has actual participation or enjoyment, generally of that which is desirable; a proprietor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To investigate a capsular swelling reaction of the strain K-9 of Klebsiella pneumoniae, possessor of large capsule, ultra-thin sections of the organisms were stained with uranyl acetate and lead citrate and were treated with rabbit antiserum.
  • (2) This finding directs further attention to subfragments of these molecules as possible possessors of intrinsic somatotrophic and lactogenic activity.
  • (3) The heirs - directly or indirectly - to an esoteric "moslem" knowledge which has been transmitted since the XVth century by the aristocratic islamized groups, the medicine-men are also the possessors of a knowledge which has been acquired by the autochthonous groups, that are said "masters of the earth" (commoners).
  • (4) The snout musculature consists of five muscles: A) Zygomaticus major, B) Levator labii superioris, C) Levator alae nasi superioris, D) Levator alae nasi inferioris and E) Zygomaticus minor, the former two of which are the possessor of the muscle spindles and the latter three of which are not so, with the exception of the Zygomaticus minor having one spindle in the Japanese shrew-mole.
  • (5) It should be no surprise that Boris Johnson – who is, as a better diplomat might say, the possessor of a lively mind – tilts persistently toward the latter .
  • (6) Drake, however, easily shone forth from this company in most every respect: a prolific songwriter, a dauntingly-fine-to-the-point-of-innovative guitarist and – a moot point this – the possessor of a more than fair vocal style; a charming, almost-breathy sound that fitted in somewhere between the incredibly diverse likes of Kevin Ayers and a male Astrud Gilberto.
  • (7) The paper describes the clinical case of an elderly patient with heart failure, the possessor of a dual-chamber pacemaker programmed in DDD mode, in whom a complete interatrial block with left atrial standstill was diagnosed.
  • (8) So many towns and villages are the possessors of one of the carved and lettered war memorials that, after the first world war, were his bread-and-butter line.
  • (9) This result might indicate that the possessors of these HLA antigens are thus protected from the development of diffuse pulmonary fibrosis from asbestos exposure.
  • (10) This is seen as the consequence of lesion-related disruption of linkages between face records, on the one hand, and non-face records that contain information uniquely and unequivocally apposite to the possessor of a particular face.
  • (11) The staff of direction in every province should be from the cream of the crop of free sharia and military officials who have the ability to argue, convince and encourage as well as from the soldiers around whom the group have congregated and should be possessors of confidence among them.
  • (12) These psychical representations are the sole possessors of the proper stimuli that motivate human beings to talk spontaneously and voluntarily.
  • (13) We interpret these results as indicating that retention of note names by possessors of AP is not limited to verbal encoding; rather, multiple codes (e.g., auditory, kinesthetic, and visual imagery) are probably used.
  • (14) As an attribute of personality, charm gives its possessor extraordinary power since we are all susceptible to its magic.
  • (15) Possessors of this personality belong and do not belong.
  • (16) She is level-headed, kind, trustworthy, approachable and the possessor of a good sense of humour,” said Johnson.
  • (17) Conversely, it is just as easily argued that, if we are examining how past wars continue to shape us, the time has never been better – especially when Australians are embracing the idea, with bipartisan political support, of constitutionally acknowledging Aborigines as the original possessors of this land.
  • (18) "At the same time, we are homing in on gene mutations that confer particular health and longevity to their possessors.
  • (19) This internal schema is accessed even when conscious recognition fails, i.e., when other pertinent memories related to the possessor of the face are not evoked.
  • (20) Once the possessor of a relatively poor rural economy, China has becoming increasingly industrialised and its middle classes have swelled in numbers.

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